What has everyone been playing this week?

[koopatroopa90]

Don't worry, you can't get higher than 99 anyway so you were close - gf and I have been at 99 for the past few days now!

[Colin]

Oh..my god!

How good is Gradius V?

It's awesome, just replayed it myself a couple of weeks back. Knocks all those recent 360 shooters for 6 in my opinion, total class.

[Parakoopa83]

I was looking through my games last night and found a game I don't even remember buying for the Gamecube P.N.03 is the game I found and its actually pretty good. I've also been playing Sonic Colours which is a lot of fun. The other game I've been playing today is Super Mario Rpg and I'm pretty certain I'm nearing the end of it as well just got up to the weapons factory. I've never completed it before but its such a fun game.

[Colin]

I remember P.N.03, incredibly stylish.

[JazzFunk]

Just finished up Blacksite on 360. Not entirely ****e but an incredibly mediocre game with zero originality and inspiration, plus a severe lack of baddie and weapon types (and these weapons aren't even fun, bar a semi-decent sniper rifle). Plays OKish and only took a couple of evenings to get through but glad to see the back of it.

[kryss]

I got to turn 80 or something in three days with my ex then we broke up and he ended the game (or it ended when he deleted me on Facebook). That actually annoyed me more than the break-up/facebook deletion/abuse.

BUT this week I unlocked the final "Expert Ghost" in Time Trails on Mario Kart Wii so I've completed that (well unlocked all Karts and Characters) and now moved onto Super Mario Galaxy (64 Stars in 5 Days!!!! GO! Team Kate!). Hoping to complete this over the Easter Weekend then next week it's New Play Control: Pikmin or might try pick up a SNES to play Earthbound? or Yoshi's Island? Exciting times... :/

You're still here!!

This week I have mainly been playing Battlefield 3, Gundam Unicorn, Azito 3D, Colors 3D, and as much Kid Icarus as my hand can take.

[nonny]

Finally back into Skyrim now 1.5 patch is out for 360. Loving that all over again.

Also playing Alan Wake for the first time. But only at night when I'm alone for maximum effect. Only onto chapter 3 but had to stop as the cat jumped on me and scared me freaking sh1tless.

That plus BF3 when I need a multiplayer fix.

[nakamura]

It's awesome, just replayed it myself a couple of weeks back. Knocks all those recent 360 shooters for 6 in my opinion, total class.

I would be inclined to agree though I haven't played many of the 360 shooters for that long. Gradius V just feels class and a 'proper' shooter rather than smashing as many bullets at you as possible. Production values are amazing too, feels like a PS2 SNES game!

[Brad]

More dragon age. 70 hours in now. My team are an unstoppable force. Got all the races to agree to help me. Got to sort out a few bits and then it's off to stop the blight I reckon. Half of me wants to finish so I can play something else, the other half wants it to never end. Luckily I have all the dlc waiting for me when I want to return to it.

[_SD_]

Starfront HD on t'iPad, which isn't in any way a blatant rip-off of Star Craft.....

[ozzzy189]

Pinball arcade for me. I'm praying a new gradius game comes to xbla. Didn't like sine mora enough to buy.

[Skull Commander]

This week it's been mostly Bulletstorm on the Xbox 360. I finished the campaign and now I'm trying some of the echoes mode. It started out pretty novel at first, but by the end of the campaign the novelty had worn off a bit. Not a bad game but right now I'm not too sure if I can be bothered doing all the Echoes levels.

Other than that I have started God Of War Chains of Olympus on the PSP which seems decent so far, and a little bit of Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360.

[leem0184]

My 360 has been running Binary Domain most of the week - I'm finding it to be a nice game.

Retro wise, I've been toying around with my Saturn on Sonic Jam and playing through the first disc of Panzer Dragoon Saga, I always love going back to the Saturn controller, I find it infinitely comfortable to hold and use. Next week will be interesting as my new Dreamcast arrivals come through, including a Pal version of Samba De Amigo (with Maraccas). I've never played it before, so I genuinely can't wait.

[sj33]

Playing through Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days on the DS right now.

To be honest, while I am a big fan of Kingdom Hearts 1, 2 and Birth By Sleep, I am finding this one to be a bit of a drag. Not a whole lot seems to actually happen, and the bite-sized mission-based structure of the game means you end up playing through the same environments repeatedly (especially during the first 1/3 of the game, which seems to be essentially a glorified tutorial). The plot also seems to be moving at a pretty sluggish pace. Overall, seems a bit of a letdown compared with Birth By Sleep, though I shall persevere with this because gameplay-wise there is little to complain about. I want to complete this and Re-coded before moving onto the new 3DS game.

Luckily the 3DS game is made by the Birth By Sleep team.

[Brad]

Just finished Dragon Age : Origins.

Absolutely fantastic. When bioware are good they are damn good. My only real complaint is that the conversation dialogs make you think that you have all kinds of options to alter the course of the game but often you really don't. Bit of smoke and mirrors. That aside they got everything right in my opinion. Will take a break before playing the expansions. Clocked up about 90 hours.